Normally a small town with a small population, at holiday times, Mallacoota’s population, particularly at Waterbirds

Easter and Christmas, increases by about 8,000. It is one of that may be seen at the most isolated towns in the state of , 25 kms off the Princes Highway and 523 kms from . It is known for its extensive bird life, beautiful forests, wildflowers, abalone industry, the inlet estuary, consisting Mallacoota of Top Lake and Bottom Lake and Croajingolong National

Park that surrounds it. It is a popular and beautiful holiday spot for boating, fishing, walking the wilderness coast, swimming, birdwatching, and surfing.

On the web at Recommended for enjoying bush birds are the walking trails www.birdlife.org.au/locations/ at Shady Gully, Double Creek, shown below, The Casuarina birdlife-east-

Walk and the Heathland Walk, and the Shipwreck Creek area, especially the walks on the heathland.

Postal Address Box 825 , Victoria, 3875

Email [email protected] Hooded Plovers. Leonie Daws

See also

East Gippsland Birding Guide Mallacoota

hp://www.birdlife.org.au/locaons/birdlife-east-

gippsland/publicaons-eg

Birding Guides are available for Bairnsdale, Lindenow, Mitchell River Naonal Park, Paynesville, Nicholson, Metung, Lakes Entrance, Lake Tyers, Bruthen & Nowa Nowa, Buchan, Marlo, and Mallacoota.

Bird List Brochures are available for Buchan Caves, Fairy Dell, Oneonta, Lake Tyers & Fishermans Landing, Nyerimilang, Omeo, The Den of Nargun, , Macleod Morass, and Cann River. Marlo and Mallacoota have Updated May 2018 2 brochures each, (1. Waterbirds and 2. Bush birds)

Species Species Species

Pink-eared Duck Bar-tailed Godwit Intermediate Egret Black Swan Black-tailed Godwit White-faced Heron Australian Shelduck Ruddy Turnstone Little Egret Hardhead Great Knot Eastern Reef Egret Australasian Shoveler Red Knot Australian White Ibis Pacific Black Duck Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Straw-necked Ibis Grey Teal Curlew Sandpiper Royal Spoonbill Chestnut Teal Red-necked Stint Australasian Gannet Musk Duck Latham's Snipe Little Pied Cormorant Australian Wood Duck Common Greenshank Great Cormorant Australasian Grebe Silver Gull Little Black Cormorant Hoary-headed Grebe Pacific Gull Black-faced Cormorant Buff-banded Rail Little Tern Pied Cormorant Purple Swamphen Fairy Tern Australasian Darter Eurasian Coot Caspian Tern Osprey Australian Pied Oystercatcher Crested Tern Swamp Harrier Sooty Oystercatcher Black-browed Albatross White-bellied Sea-Eagle Red-capped Plover Shy Albatross Azure Kingfisher Double-banded Plover Short-tailed Shearwater Little Grassbird Hooded Plover Fluttering Shearwater Australian Reed-Warbler Black-fronted Dotterel Australian Pelican Masked Lapwing Nankeen Night-Heron Red-kneed Dotterel Cattle Egret Whimbrel White-necked Heron Eastern Curlew Great Egret